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Stay Free Recordings released a sold out John Doe Folk Trio limited edition 7" vinyl featuring a new, unreleased song to support Musack, with a b-side cover of “Los Angeles” by Musack-supported band, Krudwerk! Celebrate with brand new John Doe shirts STILL AVAILABLE. All proceeds go toward Musack kids’ music programs!
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Nantucket Shirts
We are so excited for it to be summer! We all need some serious summer right now! And for this summer we are all gonna need some serious T-shirts! Musack is excited to be "dropping" some serious new Nantucket Summer T's with all proceeds going to our mission of supporting kids’ and teens’ music programs. Three gnarly summertime vibe designs by the amazing Mike Krol available now. ALSO, check out last year’s design, which is still available by the incredible Brian Butler!
Keep reading for a summer playlist or click here to jump to Tim Armstrong’s One Voice shirts!
No summer T-shirt drop would be complete without a summer playlist... SO here's a quick one... the theme... Nantucket and Summer.
We'll start with the KING of all summer songs "That Summer Feeling" by Jonathan Richman. No summer song can compete with this one... "That Summer Wind" by Frank Sinatra looks like garbage next to this. Sorry, Frank. You blew it. BUT SERIOUSLY Jonathan so perfectly sums up THAT FEELING... for me, it is so entwined with Nantucket and happens nowhere else. Make time to stop and feel it!
We're gonna stay nostalgic for a minute and follow that with "I Confess" -- maybe it's because I hit puberty the summer this came out... but MAN did this song make you feel things! So yeah. First crushes and hand holds and sunsets and jumping in the waves at night with a special someone AND all the mistakes you make when you are just learning how to operate the human heart. Dave Wakeling gets it. Ouch. SUMMERTIME romance!
Right turn to... GREASE. This came out the summer I was heading into fourth grade... or fifth... I'm too lazy to do the math... BUT I saw Grease at the Dreamland thirteen times that summer. It ruled. Just hearing the opening strains of this makes me feel like it is time to head down to the strip and get some clam strips.
This leads to "I Don't know (Spiccolis Theme)” by Jimmy Buffet from another summer movie about school... Fast Times... In all the ways that a summer of Grease changes your life -- Fast Times changed it all up again. Turn this up load -- grab a surfboard -- a cool buzz -- and go to the beach and NEVER surf... just sit there and enjoy. And had to include a Buffet tune. Lots of legends of JB on island. Someday Elin Hildebrand will write a book about a singer who crashes his pontoon plain in Nantucket sound -- paddles to shore on the back of his guitar... plays a set at the box and helps a middle aged divorcee get her groove back -- then disappears into the night. Was he real? Was he a ghost? Nope ... he was Jimmy Buffet. True Story.
Rock Lobster. This is probably the most amazing summer anthem ever recorded. This song amazes me every time I listen to it. It is fun. AND like -- serious somehow... like it's about something DEEEP and scary too. Not all is as it seems. Musically it's as good as anything Frank Sinatra did. Sorry Frank -- you gotta admit you phoned it in a lot.
Surfers Rule by The Beach Boys... gotta have some Beach Boys. This song is ridiculous in how sure it is of it's self... "It's a genuine fact... Surfers rule". -- I mean -- you don't argue with genuine facts.
Dancing in the Streets cover by the Grateful Dead -- this was the first song I ever heard the Dead play live. ALL the butterflies leading up to the show ... and then LIFT OFF... Summer is here... the time is right... Growing up on Nantucket you spent a great portion of your life waiting for summer to arrive. To leave the island in the summer had to be for a VERY GOOD REASON... a Grateful Dead show was one of them.
I'm gonna sneak in the second greatest summer song of all time... Billy Stewart's "Summertime" because what he does with this song is indescribably amazing and wonderful.
Painting Houses by Van Morrison is next. Summer jobs on the rock... What was great about painting houses or washing dishes or mowing lawns or delivering flowers ... I did all of them... was that you could play music ALL DAY... This song sums up the summer job feeling to me. Being just productive enough to let loose all afternoon/night... and have a few bills in your pocket to spend at the box.
Since we're in the "classic rock" section of the playlist I'll throw in Summer Romance by the Stones... a TOUGH reminder that summers' do end and the fog will roll back in and the party will soon stop. Dance while you can... we are all only dancing on this earth for a short while...
I threw "Don't You Forget About Me" on here because it feels like it's having the same conversation as Summer Romance was... but maybe some optimism that maybe things will return... maybe the good times are not gone for good. Maybe you can get that summer feeling back.
And I'm gonna end with Let's Dance because that song was played SOOOO MUCH the summer it came out... from straight wharf to 30 acres from Nobadeer to the Club Car piano... it was the great unifier ... Who could argue with it's musical question/demand... Let's Dance!? I guess it was more of a demand - "put on your red shoes and dance..." Fine, Bowie. We'll do it. Let's Dance!
One Voice - Music and Shirts
THE CREW’s “One Voice” is out now. Fletcher Dragge, Matt Freeman, Mike Muir, Byron Mcmackin and I got together in the studio to lay down “One Voice.”
The track will be released on 7” vinyl (B side by Rippy and Sillyettes) to benefit one of my favorite charities Musack, whose mission is to give young people a voice through music by providing musical instruments and support for teachers. Music has always been a positive light in my life, very important for me to share that with future generations. - Tim Armstrong
Listen + Pre-order the 7” vinyl from Stayfree Recordings here!
One Voice Shirts with Tim’s Art
100% of proceeds help Musack give kid and teens a voice through music by providing grants for instruments and instruction in locations around the world! Learn more here.
Message from Donick Cary, founder of Musack: We are thrilled to be launching our charity 45s project with this team of amazing artists and this scorching punk anthem "One Voice" from The Crew (featuring members of Rancid, Pennywise, and Suicidal Tendencies)! Musack started after a number of teen suicides on my hometown of Nantucket Island ... the isolation and claustrophobia of the winter there and being a teen in general. I really thought about what got me through the long winters and the teen years -- and the answer was music... a new band/song would somehow appear and change everything... The Clash ... The Ramones... The Specials... The Dead Kennedy... This is Boston Not LA ... would rescue you and then you could SHOUT off all the frustration and sing along ... all the hopeless bull **** would dissolve... all the being told what to do .... it connected you to the world and made it possible to get through one more day. "One Voice" hits all the notes... and as Musack has grown supporting kids and great music teachers from Nantucket to Alaska to the East Bay... the Pine Ridge rez and Compton ... the Navajo rez to Appalachia ... Haiti and Cuba to indigenous kids in Australia-- we've found those the islands of isolation everywhere and that music somehow unites them. Our mission was just to give voice through music wherever we could help -- with instruments or supporting a teacher -- or setting up a recording studio... We hear the kids raging and rockin all over now... inspired by Woody Guthrie's guitar -- "this machine kills fascists" -- we always tell the kids "this machine will do whatever you want it to do": make a girl love you.... tell your teachers to **** off... kill a bad mood... whatever you need it to do!
It's been a long year -- tough year to be a human -- the islands got smaller... weirder ... scarier... AND to be a teen right now? ****! I am so excited for us all to come out of hiding RAGING with this tune... we're back -- we're here -- we're ready to rock. -- and dance... and shout along with "One Voice" screaming **** you! xxx Donick
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